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Voices of Reform #1: Norm Stamper- Marijuana Bust 1968
From: NORML Foundation
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Norml Stamper, fomer Seattle Police Chief, speaks about his first Marijuana bust in 1968

  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 07:31
One Shoe In the Road: Struck Cyclists and Their Stories
From: Don Godwin
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struck cyclists talk, with original score by survivors

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPVL, RadioFreePalmer, KFOK-LPFM, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
Holiday Season of Uncertainty for Hurricane Evacuees in Colorado
From: KRCC-FM
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Katrina evacuees express frustration with FEMA

  • Added: Nov 28, 2005
  • Length: 07:00
Active Voices: Jane Midgley- Women and the US Budget
From: Chris Goldstein
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Active Voices: Jane Midgley- Women and the US Budget

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Nov 03, 2005
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Dog Park: Do Not Try to Control Your Radio
From: TL Wagner
Series: Finding The One (paying listener) at the Dog Park
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Still Trying to Find the One in Ten

Bought by WHRV and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2
Thomas Frank speaks
From: KRCC-FM
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What's the matter with Kansas (and the rest of the country)?

  • Added: Sep 23, 2005
  • Length: 07:00
I Wanna Die
From: Long Haul Productions
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Excerpts of New Orlean's Mayor Ray Nagin's 'rant' against the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina mixed with Jolie Holland's song "I Wanna D...

Bought by WMPG, KGLT, and KVNF


  • Added: Sep 04, 2005
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 3
The Day After
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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Wondering 'what if' on the day after the election--November 2004

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
End of a Red-Hunter's Crusade: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A review of famed Communist-chaser Senator Joseph McCarthy's legacy a half-century past his condemnation by Congress.

Bought by Listenwise, KTNA, and 2SER FM 107.3


  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
Our Energy Future: The Strategic Initiative of Our Era
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
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This prescient piece, recorded in January 2005, deserves a listen today at a moment when the United States can choose to break with the Oil Economy...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WXXI Rochester, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KDNK, and KAOS


  • Added: Jan 29, 2005
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 5
Towards a bland Islam
From: Merle Kessler
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Islam needs Unitarianism

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
Taking the Pledge
From: Merle Kessler
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Against the Pledge of Allegiance

  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 01:32
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition - To Have Lawyers
From: Merle Kessler
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Lawyers weigh in on torture. Ian cringes.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:52
Kill or Be Killed
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
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The bottom line realities of being a soldier

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bowling with Charlton Heston
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
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Look at the Lunacy of the NRA and Gun use in the UK and USA

  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
Media Swarm
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Presents Special Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election
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Inside the press corps circus - the color reporters, the spin alley beat men, the chief political correspondents - at a democratic presidential pri...

Bought by East Village Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 1
Joey Interviews a Cutter
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Joey from the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) interviews a cutter.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KDNK, Remix Radio, WMPG, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 5
Brooklyn According to Kalish
From: Jon Kalish
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Veteran public radio reporter Jon Kalish's 16-year journey into the Orthodox Jewish community of Brooklyn.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KFAI Minneapolis, WXXI Rochester, WZBC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 9
Life Stories - Jobs: Teaching ("Educating Esme')
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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The Diary of a First Year Teacher, "Educating Esme." One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portraits.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUER, WFAE, KPIK-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 19
The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
From: Jay Allison
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Award-winning documentary from Lost & Found Sound, produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 36

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